Identifying cheap energy for the future

Batteries

Tesla isn’t the only one building batteries for your home. As Elon Musk and company trumpet the Powerwall, so many other outfits, including Samsung and Panasonic and LG Chem, are fashioning similar devices that can store energy for use when the… Read More ›

A team of researchers with Kogakuin University has demonstrated a lithium ion battery which is not only nearly transparent, but can also be recharged with direct sunlight alone. The battery was demonstrated at Innovation Japan 2015, where the leader of… Read More ›

John Keller from Military and Aerospace Electronics writes: The worldwide market for thin-film and printed batteries over the next seven years will be 32 times larger than it is today, predict analysts at market researcher n-tech Research (formerly NanoMarkets) in… Read More ›

A method for making elastic high-capacity batteries from wood pulp was unveiled by researchers in Sweden and the US. Using nanocellulose broken down from tree fibres, a team from KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Stanford University produced an elastic,… Read More ›

How long does it take to recharge an iPhone? A few hours, right? Nucleus Scientific revealed a solution onstage today at TechCrunch Disrupt NY that can charge a phone in minutes. With this technology, the company aims to fully recharge… Read More ›

This whole video is well worth watching but if you’re pressed for time watch it from 3:08. This is not an ordinary battery that Tesla has just rolled out–but the three interesting features are the scalability, the price and… Read More ›

This week, GE announced a partnership with Berkeley Labs to develop a water-based, flow battery capable of more than just traditional, stationary energy storage. In the below Q&A, Chemist Grigorii Soloveichik discusses the project. 1. How did this project first begin? This… Read More ›